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UK
/tʃˈiələs/
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ADJECTIVE
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causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
something cheerless about the room
a moody and uncheerful person
the economic outlook is depressing
an uncheerful place
How To Use cheerless In A Sentence
- Try to see it on a big screen for the full effect of its magnificent, cheerless vistas, which meld ice and sky in a horizonless prospect, highlighting the drama as if on a modernist stage.
- Traders and residents are being warned the city will be drab and cheerless if funds are not found to pay for proper illuminations.
- No doubt they are meant to represent popular culture, but they are characteristic of the cheerlessness and sententiousness of municipal Labourism. The New Art Gallery, Walsall
- The early habitations in those settlements were rude, ‘cheerless’ cabins, which barely provided protection from the elements.
- There was no rest, never a moment's pause from the cheerless, heart-breaking battle. Trust
- But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling.
- Actually, she has been very cheerless, she comes home from school quite heavy-hearted.
- Not yet pleased with their friend's overall level of cheerlessness, the two continued.
- I saw a picture of your cheerless face holding your resignation letter to the camera and I thought I'd better write.
- After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver